ARG Puzzle with 3.5 BTC Private Key Prize, Game Over - page 37.

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Quote from: S4VV4S on July 03, 2014, 07:42:56 AM

Not home but can you guys play with the cases?
I mean instead of Laffe The Fox, try Laffe the Fox or Laffe the fox

arg and Prospero tried a ton of variations last night (see post #1601). I only posted a limited set of what I'd tried, here's some more examples of what I've checked:

Code:

Laffe the Fox - Alone in Outer Space
Laffe The Fox - Alone in Outer Space
Laffe The Fox - Alone In Outer Space
Laffe Alone in Outer Space
Laffe Alone in Outer Space.
Laffe Alone In Outer Space
LaffeAloneInOuterSpace
Laffe the Fox Alone in Outer Space
Laffe the Fox Alone In Outer Space
Laffe The Fox Alone In Outer Space
Laffe the Fox Alone in Outer Space.
Laffe the Fox Alone In Outer Space.
Laffe The Fox Alone In Outer Space.
Laffe the fox left alone in outer space
Laffe the fox left alone in outer space.
Laffe the Fox left alone in outer space
Laffe the Fox left alone in outer space.
Laffe The Fox left alone in outer space
Laffe The Fox left alone in outer space.
Left alone in outer space
Left alone in outer space.
LaffeTheFoxLeftAloneInOuterSpace
LaffetheFoxLeftAloneInOuterSpace
LaffetheFoxLeftAloneinOuterSpace

There's been no consistency to spacing or capitalization in the pre-hashed passwords to date, so several people have already been attacking that with a brute force stick.

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Quote from: jjc326 on July 03, 2014, 07:50:26 AM

Will only 1 person get all 3.5 BTC? If so I wonder why there is so much cooperation in the thread about figured it out. Wouldn't you want to keep it to yourself so you can be "ahead of the crowd?"

Well, at some point you will get stuck, and hoarding solves is against the rules (some might not care).

Also, the prize is good but getting to brag about solving a hard puzzle is priceless. - EDIT: Or parts of it Wink

None the less, your solves and proof for bragging will stay here forever, much like the blockchain Wink

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Will only 1 person get all 3.5 BTC? If so I wonder why there is so much cooperation in the thread about figured it out. Wouldn't you want to keep it to yourself so you can be "ahead of the crowd?"

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Quote from: Gatekeeper on July 03, 2014, 07:43:27 AM

Quote from: Voyager on July 03, 2014, 01:06:01 AM

Quote from: arg on July 03, 2014, 12:34:46 AM

There's one last file that hasn't been used from the DOD game.

Code:

https://mega.co.nz/#!nUkAVbAQ!f9iGWcW8gNOwKkCIYIfuvk1e7qy_1w7zXOShJVLMTK8

The file from that link is sped up, but it looks like the sampling rate was left at 8000 Hz. Every other file in the sound folder that I checked has a rate of 22050 Hz.

Instead of speeding it up, you can change the sampling rate to 22050 Hz on the original and get something of similar length and sound to the file above, but not exactly the same.

I'll post this here for comparison if anyone's interested:

Code:

https://mega.co.nz/#!XdBm0RoT!nuAfI4-2cI60hzjqTYY2N6u2GSTU-Xp7x1iU1iAzX_0

this was also interesting as the kaboom sound file has been messed with as well, so apart from the QR sound files at the end one other file was messed with, did it contain a QR file as well? i got the impression it didn't or wasn't checked, so then there's obviously a reason why it's been messed with

Dude, that's a scary signature, sick too.....

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Quote from: Voyager on July 03, 2014, 01:06:01 AM

Quote from: arg on July 03, 2014, 12:34:46 AM

There's one last file that hasn't been used from the DOD game.

Code:

https://mega.co.nz/#!nUkAVbAQ!f9iGWcW8gNOwKkCIYIfuvk1e7qy_1w7zXOShJVLMTK8

The file from that link is sped up, but it looks like the sampling rate was left at 8000 Hz. Every other file in the sound folder that I checked has a rate of 22050 Hz.

Instead of speeding it up, you can change the sampling rate to 22050 Hz on the original and get something of similar length and sound to the file above, but not exactly the same.

I'll post this here for comparison if anyone's interested:

Code:

https://mega.co.nz/#!XdBm0RoT!nuAfI4-2cI60hzjqTYY2N6u2GSTU-Xp7x1iU1iAzX_0

this was also interesting as the kaboom sound file has been messed with as well, so apart from the QR sound files at the end one other file was messed with, did it contain a QR file as well? i got the impression it didn't or wasn't checked, so then there's obviously a reason why it's been messed with

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Quote from: Gatekeeper on July 03, 2014, 07:40:24 AM

Quote from: mirth23 on July 02, 2014, 09:28:33 PM

I found the original video. It's here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rysbn9bZ54

Riffing off of that, I've tried these passwords, including the 2*sha256 versions of them. None of them worked for me:

Left Alone in Outer Space
leftaloneinouterspace
Laffe The Fox
LaffeTheFox
Left Alone in Outer Space
Left Alone In Outer Space
LeftAloneInOuterSpace
8081-va015 Odyssey
8081
Odyssey
8081Odyssey
8081 Odyssey
8081-VA015 ODYSSEY
8081-VA015ODYSSEY
Odyssey 8081-va015
ODYSSEY 8081-VA015
8081-va015 ODYSSEY
8081-va015
8081-VA015

this is the post that OP mentioned in a brief clue then deleted by posting ***mirth2E so we should maybe focus on this a bit?

Not home but can you guys play with the cases?
I mean instead of Laffe The Fox, try Laffe the Fox or Laffe the fox

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Quote from: mirth23 on July 02, 2014, 09:28:33 PM

I found the original video. It's here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rysbn9bZ54

Riffing off of that, I've tried these passwords, including the 2*sha256 versions of them. None of them worked for me:

Left Alone in Outer Space
leftaloneinouterspace
Laffe The Fox
LaffeTheFox
Left Alone in Outer Space
Left Alone In Outer Space
LeftAloneInOuterSpace
8081-va015 Odyssey
8081
Odyssey
8081Odyssey
8081 Odyssey
8081-VA015 ODYSSEY
8081-VA015ODYSSEY
Odyssey 8081-va015
ODYSSEY 8081-VA015
8081-va015 ODYSSEY
8081-va015
8081-VA015

this is the post that OP mentioned in a brief clue then deleted by posting ***mirth2E so we should maybe focus on this a bit?

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Could be irrelevant but I just tried to extract and override the files from 3.7z and got this message:
Cannot open DoD\sound\22_creak.wav

Now this is not on my pc so like I said it could be irrelevant.

Forget it

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Quote from: hoba on July 03, 2014, 07:18:26 AM

Quote from: mirth

File 20 has the same QR: http://imgur.com/3g2UVHu

OK!? With Audacity it was not visible.

I'm using Sonic Visualizer. It's hidden down in the low frequencies and is hard to extract prettily (hence the nose in the bottom third). Spectrogram settings for the image I posted are Scale: dBV^2 / Window 4096, 50% / All Bins, Log

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Are we sure "2009" should be removed?
Update prior to that line was 2003. Damn fine dev support if that's the case.

You're correct, I failed to grab that in my original diff. Editing my previous post a couple up. Thanks!

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Quote from: mirth23 on July 03, 2014, 07:19:03 AM

Based on how all the previous similar "Onion" puzzles went, the 7z should have been easily openable when I found the original video source. I'm stumped that some combination of the artist name and song title weren't it. Yet another roundup of unexplained/unsolved data:

From Again:
- weird timestamp (331369338)
- Unaltered Laffe the Fox video
- password-encrypted .7z padding from video file (of length from Number.txt)

From DoD:
- unidentified music in 16_kaboom.wav
- the following inserted text strings:
1) Monsters!
2) Such Wow!
3) Muhahahhaa
4) Satoshi was here
5) Coin_Artist: A secret
And then there was Bitcoin
6) space
7) more words

Are we sure "2009" should be removed?
Update prior to that line was 2003. Damn fine dev support if that's the case.

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Based on how all the previous similar "Onion" puzzles went, the 7z should have been easily openable when I found the original video source. I'm stumped that some (hashed) combination of the artist name and song title don't appear to be it. Yet another roundup of unexplained/unsolved data:

From Again:
- weird timestamp (331369338)
- Unaltered Laffe the Fox video
- password-encrypted .7z padding from video file (of length from Number.txt)

From 3.7/DoD:
- unidentified music in 16_kaboom.wav
- the following inserted text strings:
1) Monsters!
2) Such Wow!
3) Muhahahhaa
4) Satoshi was here
5) Coin_Artist: A secret
2009
And then there was Bitcoin
6) space
7) more words

edit: thanks rgm108 for pointing out that 2009 wasn't in the 0.5.0 DoD build, and sorry whoever I told was wrong about that yesterday (who might also be rgm108)

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Quote from: mirth23 on July 03, 2014, 07:04:04 AM

Quote from: hoba on July 03, 2014, 06:41:43 AM

Quote from: rgm108 on July 03, 2014, 06:35:53 AM

Files 20-25 all has the same QR code.
The only file left is 16. I can't see anything in it though.

I don't see the QR code in file 20, only in 21-25. And there is no file 16 left after uninstall.

EDIT: File size and bitrate of file 16 was changed in comparison to original game. Old: 30.5 kB, 176 kBit/s, new: 188kB, 256kBit/s

File size of 20-25 is 430 kB for each, bitrate 705kBit/s

Edit: 20_swoosh.wav

File 20 has the same QR: http://imgur.com/3g2UVHu

OK!? With Audacity it was not visible.

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Guys can someone post the pass for 3.7z please.

Sorry I am not home.

Thank you guys

Love you

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Quote from: arg on July 03, 2014, 07:05:13 AM

Quote from: S4VV4S on July 03, 2014, 07:00:58 AM

Yes but maybe there is something there....
Remember that members had to play MC to get clues, so I find it highly plausible

Quote from: arg on July 03, 2014, 06:59:05 AM

I've dumped the strings from the binary and run them against the 7z. No results.

Thou shalt not brute force.....

So, that is not the way to go about it I suppose.....

EDIT: Did anyone actually play the game?
What is it about?

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Quote from: S4VV4S on July 03, 2014, 07:00:58 AM

Yes but maybe there is something there....
Remember that members had to play MC to get clues, so I find it highly plausible

Quote from: arg on July 03, 2014, 06:59:05 AM

I've dumped the strings from the binary and run them against the 7z. No results.

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Quote from: hoba on July 03, 2014, 06:41:43 AM

Quote from: rgm108 on July 03, 2014, 06:35:53 AM

Files 20-25 all has the same QR code.
The only file left is 16. I can't see anything in it though.

I don't see the QR code in file 20, only in 21-25. And there is no file 16 left after uninstall.

EDIT: File size and bitrate of file 16 was changed in comparison to original game. Old: 30.5 kB, 176 kBit/s, new: 188kB, 256kBit/s

File size of 20-25 is 430 kB for each, bitrate 705kBit/s

Edit: 20_swoosh.wav

File 20 has the same QR: http://imgur.com/3g2UVHu

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Playing the game is going to suck.. It's beyond tedious. If you want to go left, you have to press L and d for down ......

II hope that is not going to be the route.

Oh well......

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Quote from: arg on July 03, 2014, 06:59:05 AM

Quote from: mirth23 on July 03, 2014, 06:56:00 AM

The 16_kaboom.wav file has an audio fragment that might be a clue. Either speed it up or change the sampling rate. Sounds like a naggingly familiar chopped out piece of an old 8 bit game.

Yeah, but nobody can work out what it's from exactly. It's not from the Kaboom Atari game (way too complex for that), but it does seem familiar all the same.

Quote from: mirth23 on July 03, 2014, 06:56:00 AM

Heh, I've been avoiding actually playing that game, maybe there's a phrase or something in there.

I've dumped the strings from the binary and run them against the 7z. No results.

Quote from: S4VV4S on July 03, 2014, 06:57:40 AM

Guys mirth made me realize that nobody played the actual game right?

What if the password is in there?

The binary is original and untouched.

Yes but maybe there is something there....
Remember that members had to play MC to get clues, so I find it highly plausible

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Quote from: mirth23 on July 03, 2014, 06:56:00 AM

The 16_kaboom.wav file has an audio fragment that might be a clue. Either speed it up or change the sampling rate. Sounds like a naggingly familiar chopped out piece of an old 8 bit game.

Yeah, but nobody can work out what it's from exactly. It's not from the Kaboom Atari game (way too complex for that), but it does seem familiar all the same.

Quote from: mirth23 on July 03, 2014, 06:56:00 AM

Heh, I've been avoiding actually playing that game, maybe there's a phrase or something in there.

I've dumped the strings from the binary and run them against the 7z. No results.

Quote from: S4VV4S on July 03, 2014, 06:57:40 AM

Guys mirth made me realize that nobody played the actual game right?

What if the password is in there?

The binary is original and untouched.

MD5(OG/dodwin.exe) = 17ba524c3ceb8b0e60a977e8302192d9

MD5(modified/dodwin.exe) = 17ba524c3ceb8b0e60a977e8302192d9

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Guys mirth made me realize that nobody played the actual game right?

What if the password is in there?

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